Compassion and Social Justice
Social justice is concerned with equity, fairness, and the existence of a just society. Covering a broad range of societal issues, social justice includes economic inequality, racial inequality, gender inequality, health inequality, poverty, food insecurity, workplace inequality, religious inequality, aboriginal issues, immigration, refugee resettlement, disability issues, violence due to war, crime, and domestic disputes, age discrimination, educational inequality, environmental destruction, and unequal enforcement of laws and regulations. The Social Justice Sector seeks effective and innovative ways to reduce suffering and improve the lives of all who encounter injustice and inequality in their daily endeavors to find a better way of life, peace, security, and meaning.
Compassion and Social Justice in DFW
The Social Justice interest group is an advocacy organization that seeks to catalyze the struggle for social justice. We are committed to working for change in partnership with various social movements and recognize that effective change requires the active participation of all sectors of our community. We actively confer with local social justice organizations in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area to encourage collective action. Our on-going interest is to work strategically with existing social justice communities to integrate compassion into their mission and programmatic actions that directly address injustice, and pressing for policy changes that promote economic and social justice. Volunteers work with community, secular and faith groups, unions and universities, to provide education, inspiration, and organizational support in cultivating and delivering compassionate action.
Opportunities and Goals for Social Justice
1. Foster civic dialog and engagement among the many Dallas/Ft. Worth communities to work collectively in joint efforts to alleviate social injustice and inequality in the broader community.
2. Promote education opportunities and support for cultivating and activating compassion resulting in higher citizen participation in social justice activities and sustained participation in programs conducted by local social justice organizations.
3. Encourage heightened engagement by governments and staff of the official compassionate cities of Ft. Worth and Dallas in developing and leading visible and effective programs in alleviating poverty and economic inequality.
4. Act as a resource in identifying groups working towards social justice to spotlight the intersectionality between issues fostering an environment of joint responsibility and action.
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Social Justice Leadership
Tom Gibbons served as senior pastor at St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church for nearly 27 years and retired in 2017. He has also served churches in Houston, Philadelphia (PA), and Pittsburgh (PA). He and his wife Judy have three children: Anna, of Brisbane, Australia; Sarah, of Sunbury, Pennsylvania; and Luke, of San Francisco, California. He was a founding member of Humble Area Assistance Ministries in suburban Houston, a Board member and two-time President of Network of Community Ministries in Richardson, a Board member of a local Texas Health Resources hospital, and a Board member of Compassionate DFW. He will retire in August 2017 but looks forward to continued involvement in social justice, peace, and non-violence.